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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Exchanging between different computers
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Date: 30 Aug 90 19:07:08 GMT
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mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:

>FSTs can not translate file formats and most reasonable people will agree that
>they should not.  That still leaves plenty of room for a very useful file
>translation program that translates between similar but different file formats
>under GS/OS.  With FSTs, though, you don't have to write tons of icky low-
>level code to read alternate file systems.

>I'd be interested in helping design such a program if someone else was
>also interested.

Why hasn't APPLE done it yet? A simple port of Apple File Exchange (you'd
have to recompile the modules or write new ones of course) would work nicely.

Apple File Exchange needs to have its prodos driver rewritten, anyway -- it
takes FOREVER to write out to a prodos disk. Even AppleShare is faster (jeez).

Chan Wilson's program reads HFS disks as fast as the P8 disk driver will go.

Hence, I use AFE to read Prodos on a Mac, and Chan Wilson's A2FX to read HFS on
a //.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu